"NES to be released for the 3DS on a tech demo called ""Classic Games"" at E3 2010. ""Konami's Ping Pong"" was made available on Microsoft's ""Game Room"" service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs in June 2010. Konami's Ping Pong Konami's Ping Pong is a sports arcade game created in 1985 by Konami. The game is noted as the first video game to accurately reflect the gameplay of table tennis, as opposed to earlier simplifications like ""Pong"". As with other Konami titles of the time, it was ported to several 8-bit computer systems and video game consoles."
"Konami's Ping Pong Konami's Ping Pong is a sports arcade game created in 1985 by Konami. The game is noted as the first video game to accurately reflect the gameplay of table tennis, as opposed to earlier simplifications like ""Pong"". As with other Konami titles of the time, it was ported to several 8-bit computer systems and video game consoles. ""Konami's Ping Pong"" can be played singleplayer or multiplayer, using 11 point scoring rules; the first player to attain a score of 11 or higher, leading by two points, wins the game (to a maximum of 14-14, at which point"
"Pan Pong Pan Pong (also Panpon, Pan-Pon or Pang-Pong) is a hybrid of tennis and ping pong. The name comes from the sound when the ball is being hit from one side to the next, pan - pon - pan - pon and is played on asphalt with racquets made of wood, a soft tennis ball and a net in form a wooden plank. Rules are similar to tennis or ping-pong but is played in shorter matches of 3 games. The game was invented in 1922, during the Taisho era (1912-1926), on the Hitachi Ltd. factory campus in Japan. Pan-Pon"
"championship in Pan-Pon will be held. Pan Pong Pan Pong (also Panpon, Pan-Pon or Pang-Pong) is a hybrid of tennis and ping pong. The name comes from the sound when the ball is being hit from one side to the next, pan - pon - pan - pon and is played on asphalt with racquets made of wood, a soft tennis ball and a net in form a wooden plank. Rules are similar to tennis or ping-pong but is played in shorter matches of 3 games. The game was invented in 1922, during the Taisho era (1912-1926), on the Hitachi"
"platforms following its release. ""Pong"" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. due to its cultural impact. ""Pong"" is a two-dimensional sports game that simulates table tennis. The player controls an in-game paddle by moving it vertically across the left or right side of the screen. They can compete against another player controlling a second paddle on the opposing side. Players use the paddles to hit a ball back and forth. The goal is for each player to reach eleven points before the opponent; points are earned when one fails to return the ball"
"into the area of Manipur state as early as the seventh century, and Manipuri ponies were one of the first breeds used in the game. The British learned of polo during the 19th century while watching it played on Manipuri ponies in India. The breed is still used for polo today in India, but other breeds are more popular in Europe and America. Manipuri ponies are often also used to play ""sagol kangjei"", a version of polo believed to be close to what was originally played when the sport was invented. Sagol kangjei is more demanding than modern polo, as"
"that a game called poque, a French game similar to poker, was played around the region where poker is said to have originated. The name of the game likely descended from the Irish ""Poca"" (Pron. Pokah) ('Pocket') or even the French ""poque"", which descended from the German ""pochen"" ('to brag as a bluff' lit. 'to knock'). Yet it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing those names. It is commonly regarded as sharing ancestry with the Renaissance game of ""primero"" and the French ""brelan"". The English game ""brag"" (earlier bragg) clearly descended from"
"game that made the paddle jump up and attempt to bounce the ball downwards instead of up. In addition to the base game, Atari sold a conversion kit to convert any Atari two-player ""Pong"" variant into ""Rebound"", and in 1977 ""Rebound"" was included in ""Video Olympics"" for the Atari 2600, a collection of ""Pong"" variants. ""Rebound"" is a two-player volleyball sports game in which the players, each controlling a paddle representing a person on either side of a volleyball net, attempt to score points. The horizontal paddles are moved by the players left and right on their side of the"
"four games are variations on Pong, The last two games are single player shooting games that utilized the light gun. All of the games are incredibly simple compared to the games of today or even the early 1980s. The sports games were minor variations on Pong, with differences in the number of paddles, players, and the main surface to bounce objects off of. ""Skeet"" consisted of aiming and shooting at a square that moved diagonally across the screen in one direction, while ""Target"" was a variation that made the same square bounce around on the screen. Coleco Telstar Marksman The"
"originated in Victorian England, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game. It has been suggested that makeshift versions of the game were developed by British military officers in India in around 1860s or 1870s, who brought it back with them. A row of books stood up along the center of the table as a net, two more books served as rackets and were used to continuously hit a golf-ball. The name ""ping-pong"" was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. The name ""ping-pong"" then came to describe"
"usually transparent. They introduced polo to the west when the British came to Manipur valley during the kings rule. It is locally called Sagol Kangjei. It is believed that the game was played by the Gods of Meiteis as a practice of warfare. According to Chaitharol-Kumbaba, a Royal Chronicle of Manipur King Kangba who ruled Manipur much earlier than Nongda Lairen Pakhangba (33 AD) introduced Polo. Kang is a game played under a shed of building on an earth ground (court) smoothly levelled to suit the course of the 'Kang' the target on the court. It is well marked for"
"fell and he was impaled on the pommel of his saddle. The sport was also popular among Mughal emperors who called it ""Chaugan"". Emperor Akbar introduced an official set of rules for the sport. The origins of the game in Manipur are traced to early precursors of Sagol Kangjei. This was one of three forms of hockey in Manipur, the other ones being field hockey (called Khong Kangjei) and wrestling-hockey (called Mukna Kangjei). Local rituals such as those connected to the Marjing, the Winged-Pony God of Polo and the creation-ritual episodes of the Lai Haraoba festival enacting the life of"
"of polo though it can also be seen as the precursor of modern outdoor polo. Polo Polo is a horseback mounted team sport. It is one of the world's oldest known team sports. The current game in its modern form originated in Manipur, a northeastern state in India, and was propagated by officers of the British military in the mid 19th century. It is now popular around the world, with well over 100 member countries in the Federation of International Polo. It is played professionally in 16 countries. It was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1936. It is known"
"and wrestling-hockey (called Mukna Kangjei). Local rituals such as those connected to the Marjing, the Winged-Pony God of Polo and the creation-ritual episodes of the Lai Haraoba festival enacting the life of his son, Khori-Phaba, the polo-playing god of sports. These may indicate an origin earlier than the historical records of Manipur. Later, according to Chaitharol-Kumbaba, a Royal Chronicle of Manipur King Kangba who ruled Manipur much earlier than Nongda Lairen Pakhangba (33 AD) introduced Sagol Kangjei (Kangjei on horse back). Further regular playing of this game commenced in 1605 during the reign of King Khagemba under newly framed rules"
"Polo Polo is a horseback mounted team sport. It is one of the world's oldest known team sports. The current game in its modern form originated in Manipur, a northeastern state in India, and was propagated by officers of the British military in the mid 19th century. It is now popular around the world, with well over 100 member countries in the Federation of International Polo. It is played professionally in 16 countries. It was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1936. It is known as the sport of kings. It has become a spectator sport for equestrians and society,"
"long article about Plasma Pong in June 2007. Later, a HTML5 remake was made by another author. (archived in 2007) Plasma Pong Plasma Pong is an indie video game created by American developer Steve Taylor. In 2007, the game was put on hiatus in 2007 (""Cease and desist"") to respect Atari's ""Pong"" trademark. ""Plasma Pong"" is a clone of ""Pong"", in which two players control a paddle each, at either side of the screen, volleying a ball between them. The environment is a fluid-like plasma which can be pushed and sucked with the paddles. There are three game modes in"
"was based on the Odyssey ""Table Tennis"" game. Alcorn soon developed ""Pong"", which Bushnell recognized as a potential hit, and it became the company's first game. ""Pong"" was very successful, and in turn helped drive sales of the Odyssey; Baer once noted that customers bought the console because of ""Table Tennis"", in turn because of ""Pong"", and joked that they may as well have stopped designing games after that game card. In 1974, however, Magnavox sued Atari along with several competitors including Nutting, Allied Leisure, Bally Midway, and Williams Electronics for infringing on Baer's patents for video games played on"
"were unable to find a manufacturer, but on the evidence of the success of their prototype installation, decided to produce the game cabinets themselves. ""Pong"" was released in 1972, a year after ""Computer Space"". It was immensely commercially successful, selling over 8,000 units. It inspired copycat games to be sold in America, Europe, and Japan, and led to the popularization of the medium. That same year saw the release of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console which could be connected to a television set. The inventor, Ralph H. Baer, had initially had the idea in 1951 to"
"companies that produced their own versions of ""Pong"" eventually became well-known within the industry. Nintendo entered the video game market with clones of ""Home Pong"". The revenue generated from them—each system sold over a million units—helped the company survive a difficult financial time, and spurred them to pursue video games further. After seeing the success of ""Pong"", Konami decided to break into the arcade game market and released its first title, ""Maze"". Its moderate success drove the company to develop more titles. Pong has also been used in programming classrooms to teach the fundamentals of languages such as Java and"
"sports that originated in Persia are polo and jousting. A polished bone implement found at Eva in Tennessee, United States and dated to around 5000 BCE has been construed as a possible sporting device used in a ""ring and pin"" game. For at least one hundred years, entire villages have competed with each other in rough, and sometimes violent, ballgames in England (Shrovetide football) and Ireland (caid). In contrast, the game of calcio Fiorentino, in Florence, Italy, was originally reserved for combat sports such as fencing and jousting being popular. Horse racing, in particular, was a favourite of the upper"
"another early team sport video game, ""Soccer"", based on association football; it was also a ball-and-paddle game, but with a green background to simulate a playfield, allowed each player to control both a forward and a goalkeeper, and let them adjust the size of the players who were represented as paddles on screen. Both ""Davis Cup"" and ""Soccer"" were designed by Tomohiro Nishikado of ""Space Invaders"" fame. Early hockey video games were also released in 1973: Sega's ""Hockey TV"", and Taito's ""Pro Hockey"", which had similar gameplay to ""Pong,"" but with boundaries around the screen and only a small gap"
"Poch Poch, Pochen or Pochspiel () is a very old card game, which is recorded as early as 1441 in Strasbourg. Poch is considered one of the forerunners of poker, a game that developed in America in the 19th century. An etymological relationship between the game names is also assumed. Games related to Poch are the French ""Glic"" and ""Nain Jaune"" and the English Pope Joan. Other forerunners of poker and possible relatives of the game are the English game, Brag, from the 16th century and the French Brelan (later Bouillotte) and Belle, Flux et Trente-et-Un. ""Pochen"" is also another"
"""Pong"". Available in limited quantities in late 1972, ""Pong"" began reaching the market in quantity in March 1973, after which it ignited a new craze for ball-and-paddle video games in the coin-operated amusement industry. The success of ""Pong"" did not result in the displacement of traditional arcade amusements like pinball, but did lay the foundation for a successful video arcade game industry. Roughly 70,000 video games, mostly ball-and-paddle variants, were sold in 1973 by a combination of recent startups like Atari, Ramtek, and Allied Leisure and established Chicago firms like Williams, Chicago Coin, and the Midway subsidiary of Bally Manufacturing."
"the game as an intramural sport, making it the only college-sponsored drinking contest in the country. In 1977, Dartmouth ended this practice. By the mid-1980s Pong was well established at several universities, including Bowdoin College, Lehigh University, Lafayette College, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Whitman College, and Williams College. By 1976, students began publishing articles about the game. A 2004 survey of Dartmouth students provided these statistics: No ""official"" codified version of the rules of pong exist, and many ""house rules"" variations exist. In general terms, players start by assembling cups of beer or other obstacles onto either side of"
"by Chinese immigrants in the 20th century and is now a popular casino game. Another casino game, Roulette, has been played since the late 18th century, and was probably adapted from English wheel games such as Roly-Poly and E.O. With the possible exception of Carrom (a game whose origins are uncertain), the earliest table games appear to have been the Cue sports, which include Carom billiards, Pool, or ""Pocket billiards"", and Snooker. The cue sports are generally regarded as having developed into indoor games from outdoor stick-and-ball lawn games (retroactively termed ground billiards), and as such to be related to"
"features, and would later release updated versions. Coleco entered the video game market with their Telstar console; it features three ""Pong"" variants and was also succeeded by newer models. Nintendo released the Color TV Game 6 in 1977, which plays six variations of electronic tennis. The next year, it was followed by an updated version, the Color TV Game 15, which features fifteen variations. The systems were Nintendo's entry into the home video game market and the first to produce themselves—they had previously licensed the Magnavox Odyssey. The dedicated ""Pong"" consoles and the numerous clones have since become varying levels"
"The modern game of polo is derived from Manipur, India, where the game was known as 'Sagol Kangjei', 'Kanjai-bazee', or 'Pulu'. It was the anglicised form of the last, referring to the wooden ball that was used, which was adopted by the sport in its slow spread to the west. The first polo club was established in the town of Silchar in Assam, India, in 1833. The origins of the game in Manipur are traced to early precursors of Sagol Kangjei. This was one of three forms of hockey in Manipur, the other ones being field hockey (called Khong Kangjei)"
"his son, Khori-Phaba, the polo-playing god of sports. These may indicate an origin earlier than the historical records of Manipur. Later, according to Chaitharol-Kumbaba, a Royal Chronicle of Manipur King Kangba who ruled Manipur much earlier than Nongda Lairen Pakhangba (33 AD) introduced Sagol Kangjei (Kangjei on horse back). Further regular playing of this game commenced in 1605 during the reign of King Khagemba under newly framed rules of the game. However it was the first Mughal emperor, Babur, who popularised the sport in India and ultimately made a significant influence on England. In Manipur, polo is traditionally played with"
"two poles (or nearby landmarks), with the objective to hit the chosen point using the least number of strokes. A similar game (""knattleikr"") had been played for a thousand years or more by the Scandinavian peoples, as documented in the Icelandic sagas. Polo has been referred to as ""hockey on horseback"". In England, field hockey developed in the late 17th century, and there is evidence that some games of field hockey took place on the ice. These games of ""hockey on ice"" were sometimes played with a ""bung"" (a plug of cork or oak used as a stopper on a"
"played from Constantinople to Japan by the Middle Ages. The game also spread south to Arabia and to India and Tibet. An archaic variation of polo, regionally referred to as ""buzkashi"" or ""kokpar"", is still played in parts of Asia. During the period of the Parthian Empire (247 BC to 224 AD), the sport had great patronage under the kings and noblemen. Known as ""chovgan"" it is still played in the region today. The game continued to be supported by Mongol rulers of Persia in the 11th century, as well as under the Safavid dynasty. Emperor Shapur II learnt to"
"the sports games ""Davis Cup"" and ""Soccer"", both released in 1973. ""Davis Cup"" was an early team sport video game, a tennis doubles game with similar ball-and-paddle gameplay to ""Pong"" but played in doubles, allowing up to four players to compete. ""Soccer"" was also an early team sport video game, and an early video game to be based on football, specifically association football. ""Soccer"" was also a ball-and-paddle game, but with a green background to simulate a playfield, allowed each player to control both a forward and a goalkeeper, and let them adjust the size of the players who were"
"taken by one's opponent. Atari was incorporated in the state of California on June 27, 1972. Bushnell and Dabney offered to license ""Pong"" to Bally, but the company had no idea what to do with the game, and did not immediately take the license. Instead, Bushnell and Dabney opted to create a test unit themselves and see how it was received at a local establishment. By August 1972, the first ""Pong"" was completed. It consisted of a black and white television from Walgreens, the special game hardware, and a coin mechanism from a laundromat on the side which featured a"
"the respective positions of the players of both to hit the target on the court. It has rules and regulations formed by the associations to suit the occasions of the games either for competitive tournaments or friendly entertainment. The dignitaries of the Palace, even Queen and King also participated on social functions. Mukna a unique form of wrestling popular amongst the Meiteis. Mukna Kangjei also known as Khong Kangjei is a game which combines the arts of mukna (wrestling hockey) and Kangjei (Cane Stick) to play the ball made of seasoned bamboo roots.[3] The origin of the game dates to"